NVIDIA Quadro 4000 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 4000 Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro 4000 Mac Edition

  • Around 33% higher pipelines: 256 vs 192
  • Around 17% higher maximum memory size: 1792 MB vs 1536 MB
  • 2.2x more memory clock speed: 2808 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Pipelines 256 vs 192
Maximum memory size 1792 MB vs 1536 MB
Memory clock speed 2808 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M

  • Around 63% higher core clock speed: 775 MHz vs 475 MHz
  • Around 63% higher texture fill rate: 24.8 billion / sec vs 15.2 GTexel / s
  • Around 22% better floating-point performance: 595.2 gflops vs 486.4 gflops
  • Around 89% lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 142 Watt
Core clock speed 775 MHz vs 475 MHz
Texture fill rate 24.8 billion / sec vs 15.2 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance 595.2 gflops vs 486.4 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt vs 142 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 4000 Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M

Name NVIDIA Quadro 4000 Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M
PassMark - G3D Mark 1261
PassMark - G2D Mark 261
Geekbench - OpenCL 4919
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 13.598
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 404.618
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.227
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 25.333
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 44.123
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1857
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3275
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3341
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1857
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3275
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3341
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA Quadro 4000 Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Fermi 2.0
Code name GF100 GF116
Launch date 12 June 2011 30 May 2011
Launch price (MSRP) $1,199
Place in performance rating not rated 1173
Type Workstation Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 475 MHz 775 MHz
Floating-point performance 486.4 gflops 595.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 256 192
Texture fill rate 15.2 GTexel / s 24.8 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 142 Watt 75 Watt
Transistor count 3,100 million 1,170 million
CUDA cores 192

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Length 241 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin None
Bus support PCI-E 2.0
Laptop size large
SLI options 2-way

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 12 API
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
OpenCL 1.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1792 MB 1536 MB
Memory bandwidth 89.9 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 2808 MHz 1250 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
CUDA
DirectX 11 DirectX 11
Optimus